# Founding Engineer at Clera

Founding Engineer at Clera in San Francisco. On-site, full-time, paying $150k–$250k. Posted October 31, 2026.

- Company: Clera
- Location: San Francisco
- Workplace: On-site
- Job type: Full-time
- Pay: $150k–$250k
- Posted: 2026-10-31
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/4353062e-ec95-46d9-a2ad-081332be2773/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/founding-engineer-clera-6aksm7

## Requirements

- At least two years shipping production software, or an equivalent record as a founder or solo builder; exceptional early-career engineers are also considered.
- Full-stack range, with the ability to work from backend and infrastructure through product UI.
- Experience building and operating LLM or AI agent systems used by real customers, not demo-only projects.
- Experience turning prototypes into production infrastructure, including architecture, data models, runtimes, and orchestration.
- Evidence of owning technical decisions in a small or early-stage team, and shipping to production users weekly or faster.
- Useful experience includes agent orchestration, memory, evaluations, verification, multi-agent workflows, or software for recruiting, agencies, and other service businesses.
- Strong technical fundamentals and the ability to explain the difficult parts of systems you have built.

## Description

### About the Role

Join an early-stage AI company as its first engineering hire, working directly with the founder in San Francisco. You will evolve a working AI workforce product into reliable infrastructure designed to scale, with the opportunity to grow into a CTO role as the work and team develop.

### What You'll Do

- Rebuild the product foundation to support substantial user growth and production workloads.

- Design and operate the agent runtime, including orchestration, memory, verification, and reliability systems.

- Own technical work across backend, infrastructure, frontend, and agent systems, as company needs evolve.

- Set the technical architecture, stack, engineering standards, and development practices.

- Ship improvements weekly to customers using the product in live service businesses.

### What We're Looking For

- At least two years shipping production software, or an equivalent record as a founder or solo builder; exceptional early-career engineers are also considered.

- Full-stack range, with the ability to work from backend and infrastructure through product UI.

- Experience building and operating LLM or AI agent systems used by real customers, not demo-only projects.

- Experience turning prototypes into production infrastructure, including architecture, data models, runtimes, and orchestration.

- Evidence of owning technical decisions in a small or early-stage team, and shipping to production users weekly or faster.

- Useful experience includes agent orchestration, memory, evaluations, verification, multi-agent workflows, or software for recruiting, agencies, and other service businesses.

- Strong technical fundamentals and the ability to explain the difficult parts of systems you have built.

### Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $150,000 to $250,000 USD annually, plus meaningful founding equity. Visa sponsorship and relocation support are available.

### Location

On-site in San Francisco, California. The founding team works together in person.